July 25th
Holidays and Festivals
National Day (Spain) A.K.A. Día da Pátria Galega GaliciaConstitution Day (Puerto Rico) 1952). Formerly Occupation Day (1898)
Inca festival in honor of the thunder god Ilyap'a
Furinalia (Roman)
Culinarians Day
Threading the Needle Day
Cow Appreciation Day
National Day of the Cowboy
Ebernoe Horn Fair in Sussex, southern England
Feast of Saint Christopher, martyr [in the fifteenth century often moved, usually to July 27; Paris, Bruges, in red] (Roman Catholicism)
Feast of Saint Cucufas/Cougat, martyr [England, Orden; Paris]
Feast of Saint James the Great, Apostle, died 44 AD, patron saint of Spain [common]
Feast of Translation of Saint Julian of Le Mans, bishop of Le Mans, confessor (sometimes martyr) [Le Mans, Paris]
Feast of Dormition of Saint Ann, Mother of the Virgin Mary (Byzantine rite)
*Calgary Stampede (mid july) (10-10)
*Crop Over Bridgetown, Barbados - 2nd sat in July - 1st Mon in August (18-22)
*Fiesta de Merengue Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep. Last week of July (1-7)
Fête de la Armoise Translation: Mugwort Day (French Republican) The Seventh day of the Month of Thermidor in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Now I, friend, drink to you, friend,
As my friend drank to me,
And I, friend, charge to you, friend,
As my friend charge me,
That you, friend, drink to your friend,
As my friend drank to me;
And the more we drink together, friend,
The merrier we will be!"
- Anonymous
Drink of The Day
Macua
2 Parts White Rum
2 Parts Guava Juice
1 Part Lemon Juice
Sugar to Taste
Blend the ingredients with 1 cup of Ice and serve Chilled. Garnish with an Orange Slice
- In Celebration of the Independence Day in Nicaragua (July 25 1850). Macua is the National Drink of Nicaragua.
- Alternative Drink -
Absinthe Drinker
1 shot absinthe
1 teaspoon caster sugar
Pour shot of absinthe into old fashioned glass. Dip teaspoon of sugar into absinthe until soaked. Light teaspoon and then stir caramalising sugar into absinthe, lighting it. Extinguish glass by topping up with chilled water.
- In Rememberance of Absinthe being Banned in the USA (7/25/1912).
Wine of The Day
Rietvallei (2008) Estate
Style - Shiraz-Petit Verdot-Viognier
Robertson
$20
Beer of The Day
Rye Bob
Brewer - The Grumpy Troll Brewery, Restaurant & Pizzeria Mount Horeb, WI
Style - Rye Beer
Joke of The Day
A drunk gets up from the bar and heads for the bathroom. A few minutes later, a loud, blood-curdling scream is heard coming from the bathroom. A few minutes after that, another loud scream echo's through the bar.
The bartender goes into the bathroom to investigate what the drunk is screaming about. What's all the screaming about in there? You're scaring my customers!"
The drunk responds, "I'm just sitting here on the toilet and every time I try to flush, something comes up and squeezes the hell out of my balls."
The bartender opens the door and looks in. You idiot! You're sitting on the mop bucket!
Quote of The Day
"Beer will always have a definite role in the diet of an individual and can be considered a cog in the wheel of nutritional foods."
- Bruce Carlton
July Observances
Air-Conditioning Appreciation Days (7/3 to 8/15)
Bereaved Parents Awareness Month
National Bikini Month
Bioterrorism/Disaster Education and Awareness Month
Cell Phone Courtesy Month
Dog Days (7/3 to 8/11)
Doghouse Repairs" Month, Natl
Eggplant and Lettuce Month
Eye Injury Prevention Month
Family Golf Month
Family Reunion Month
Freedom From Fear of Speaking Month
Herbal/Prescription Awareness Month
Home Inspector Appreciation Month, Natl
International Blondie and Deborah Harry Month
International Group B Strep Awareness Month
International Women with Alopecia Month
International Zine Month
Learn Arabic Month
Mango and Melon Month
National "Doghouse Repairs" Month
National Anti-Boredom Month
National Black Family Month
National Blueberries Month
National Cell Phone Courtesy Month
National Child-Centered Divorce Month
National Culinary Arts Month
National Grilling Month
National Hemochromatosis Screening and Awareness Month
National Horseradish Month
National Hot Dog Month
National Ice Cream Month
National Independent Retailers Month
National Make A Difference to Children Month
National Recreation and Parks Month
National Share A Sunset With Your Lover Month
National Vehicle Theft Protection Month
National Wheelchair Beautification Month
Nectarine and Garlic Month
Purposeful Parenting Month
Roots and Branches Month
Sandwich Generation Month
Share A Sunset With Your Lover Month Link
Skyscraper Month
Smart Irrigation Month
Social Wellness Month
Tour de France Month (Started 6/30 - 7/19)
UV Safety Month
Unlucky Month for weddings
Women's Motorcycle Month
Worldwide Bereaved Parents Month
Observances this Week
Everybody Deserves A Massage Week Third Full Week in July
National Zoo Keeper Week Third Full Week in July
National Parenting Gifted Children Week Third Full Week in July
National Independent Retailers Week Week containing July 21st (birthday of Tom Shay's grandmother)
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week July 18th through 25th (Also see February 1st through 7th)
World Lumberjack Championships Last Thursday through Saturday in July
Garlic Days Last Friday through Sunday in July
World Youth Day Date Varies usually every three years (July 23 - July 28, 2013)
Historical Events on July 25th
285 Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler.
306 Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
841 Battle at Fontenay: Louis & Charles beat their brother Lotharius I
864 The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings.
1139 Battle of Ourique, The independence of Portugal from the Kingdom of León declared after the Almoravids, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are defeated by Prince Afonso Henriques. He then becomes Afonso I, King of Portugal, after calling the first assembly of the estates-general of Portugal at Lamego, where he is given the Crown from the Bishop of Bragança, to confirm the independence.
1215 Frederik II (20) crowned king of German
1261 The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.
1360 Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia
1511 Portugese assault on city Malakka attack
1519 San Cristobal de la Habana forms in Cuba
1521 About 300 heretics burned in Vrijdagmarkt Gent
1536 Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the City of Santiago de Cali.
1538 The City of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil.
1547 Henry II of France is crowned.
1564 Maximilian II succeeds his father Ferdinand II as RC emperor
1567 Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
1570 Battle at Arnay-le-Duc Bourgundy: Huguenots-French government army
1585 Amsterdam bans 45 roman catholics
1593 Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
1603 James VI of Scotland is crowned bringing the Kingdoms of England and Scotland into personal union. Political union would occur in 1707.
1652 Nikita Minin becomes patriarch of Russian-orthodox church
1670 Austrian Emperor Leopold I expels 4,000 Jews from Vienna
1670 Don Juan Domingo Zuniga y Fonseca becomes gov-gen of Southern Neth
1670 Vienna Austria expels Jews
1689 France declares war on England
1693 Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, México.
1722 The Three Years War begins along the Maine and Massachusetts border.
1729 North Carolina becomes a royal colony
1755 British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians. Thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and England. Some later move to Louisiana, while others resettle in New Brunswick.
1758 The island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken, Seven Years' War.
1759 British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War)
1759 In Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French during French and Indian War, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé.
1775 Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta
1788 Wolfgang Mozart completes his Symphony number 40 in g minor (K550).
1792 Dutch patriots exiles finds "Bataafs Legion"
1792 The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed.
1795 The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid.
1797 Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).
1799 French-Egyptian forces under Napolean I defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha at the Battle of Abukir
1814 Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy's Lane); Americans defeat British
1814 George Stephenson introduced the 1st steam locomotive
1814 Battle of Lundy's Lane of the War of 1812. Reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls for General Riall's British and Canadian forces and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown's Americans commences at 18.00; the Americans retreat to Fort Erie.
1822 Gen Agustin de Iturbide crowned Agustin I, 1st emperor of Mexico
1824 Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
1832 1st railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies
1835 Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine
1837 The first commercial use of an electric telegraph was successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.
1848 1st battle at Custozza: Austrians under Radetzky beat Italian
1850 Gold discovered in Oregon (Rogue River)
1853 Joaquin Murietta, the famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
1860 1st US intercollegiate billiard match (Harvard vs Yales)
1861 The Crittenden-Johnson Resolution is passed by the U.S. Congress stating that the American Civil War is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
1861 Skirmish at Fort Fillmore, NM Terr Rebels attack Union troops
1863 Skirmish at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia
1866 25th Postmaster General Alexander W Randall of Wis takes office
1866 David Faragut appointed as 1st admiral of US Navy
1866 The U.S. Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army (commonly called "5-star general"). Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
1866 US Grant named 1st general of Army
1868 US Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah & Idaho)
1868 Wyoming becomes a United States territory.
1869 The Japanese daimyo begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
1871 Carousel patents by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa
1894 The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
1897 Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.
1898 The United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops led by General Nelson Miles landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico (The land invasion, proper, began that day: Sea-based bombardment and shelling of the capital city of San Juan had been occurring since May 1898).
1900 Gilbert Jessop hits his 2nd 100 before lunch in same cricket match
1902 James J Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1903 Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes
1907 Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
1908 Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
1909 Louis Blériot (France) makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover) in 37 minutes.
1912 Comoros proclaimed a French colonies
1913 Carl Weilman strikes out 6 times in a 15 inning game
1913 Pirates Max Carey goes hitless, but scores 5 runs against Phillies
1914 Germany soc-democrat "No German blood for Austrian tyrant"
1914 Last day of club cricket for W G Grace at age 66 He made 69
1915 RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front.
1916 Explosion at Lake Erie & Cleveland Waterworks
1917 Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
1918 Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of US, Calif
1918 Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks & 2 whites killed)
1920 France captures Damascus.
1920 Red Sox turn triple-play, but Ruth's 35th HR leads Yanks to 8-2 win
1920 The first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place.
1922 AT&T begins broadcasting on WBAY (NYC-later WEAF, WNBC, WRCA & WFAN)
1923 German mark devalued to 600,000 Dmark=$1
1925 Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
1930 Phila Athletics triple steal in 1st & 4th innings vs Cleveland
1933 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington
1934 The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
1936 115 acre Orchard Beach opens in the Bronx
1938 Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany
1938 Revolutionary offensive of Ebro Spain (Hollander Piet)
1939 5th & last Dutch government of Colijn, forms
1939 NY Yankee Atley Donald sets AL rookie record with 12 consecutive win
1940 General Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
1940 John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hrs 46 mins in the Mississippi R
1941 FDR bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan
1941 Red Sox Lefty Grove becomes 12th to win 300 games (his last victory)
1942 German troops occupy Rostov
1942 German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja
1942 Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the Nazis.
1943 1st warship named for a Black person, SS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched
1943 Benito Mussolini captured, dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II
1943 Opposition group Zwaantje forms in Delfzijl
1943 RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam
1943 Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio during World War II.
1944 Japanse banzai-attack on Guam
1944 1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)
1944 Allied jailbreak at St-Lo (behind German lines)
1944 USAF kills 136, wounds 621 GI's at St-Lo
1944 US troop march into Guam
1944 Operation Spring one of the bloodiest days for Canadians during World War II. 18,444 casualties, including 5,021 killed.
1946 1st bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show
1946 At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
1946 Operation Crossroads, an atomic bomb is detonated by the U.S. underwater in the lagoon of Bikini atoll (5th atomic explosion).
1947 US Air Force, Navy & War Dept form US Dept of Defense
1947 US Department of Army created
1949 St Louis Cardinal Stan Musial hits for the cycle beating Bkln 14-1
1952 The U.S. non-incorporated colonial territory of Puerto Rico adopts a "constitution" of local-limited powers, approved by the United States Congress in contravention of then-current International Law, becomes a self-governing US commonwealth.
1953 NYC transit fare rises from 10 cents to 15 cents, 1st use of subway tokens
1954 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Fort Wayne Golf Open
1956 38th PGA Championship, Jack Burke at Blue Hill CC Boston
1956 45 miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
1956 Jordan attacks UN Palestine force
1957 Monarchy in Tunisia abolished in favor of a republic
1957 Peter Loader takes a cricket hat-trick England v WI Headingley
1957 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1958 The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.
1959 SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours.
1960 Company Industrielle et Forestere (Indufor) forms in Brussels
1961 In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
1961 Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 & 40 in a doubleheader
1962 House passes bill requiring equal pay for equal work regardless of sex
1963 Belgian Senate accept Law on language regulations
1963 US, Russia & England sign nuclear Test ban treaty
1964 "Here's Love" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 338 performances
1964 Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 14 weeks
1964 Bob Simpson out for 311 at Old Trafford
1964 Race riot in Rochester NY
1965 Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
1965 Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival
1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Tournament
1966 Brian Jones final perfomance as a Rolling Stone
1966 Eric Clapton records guitar tracks for Harrison's "While My Guitar..."
1966 Mao Tse Tung swims Yangtse River
1966 Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love"
1966 Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
1967 Construction begins on SF MUNI METRO (Market Street subway)
1968 Pope Paul VI encyclical against On regulation of birth
1969 1st performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Fillmore East, NY)
1969 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival
1969 Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne
1969 US President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the Vietnam War.
1970 "(They Long to Be) Close to You" reaches #1
1971 Judy Kimball wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies Golf Open
1972 43rd All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 4-3 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. All star MVP: Joe Morgan (Cin Reds)
1972 US health officials concede blacks were used as guinea pigs in 40 year syphilis experiment
1973 George Harrison pays £1,000,000 tax on his Bangladesh concert & album
1973 Soviet Mars 5 space probe launched.
1973 USSR launches Mars 5
1975 "A Chorus Line," longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premieres
1976 Annegret Richter runs 100m (11.01)
1976 Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1978 Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar
1978 Bob Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager
1978 Cin Red Pete Rose sets NL record hitting in 38 consecutive games
1978 John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image
1978 Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born.
1978 The Cerro Maravilla Incident occurs.
1979 109 cm rainfall at Alvin Texas (state record)
1979 Another section of the Sinai peacefully returned by Israel to Egypt.
1980 Train crash at Winsum, 9 die
1980 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1981 Voyager 2 encounters Saturn
1982 20th Tennis Fed Cup, USA beats Germany in Santa Clara USA (3-0)
1982 37th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Janet Anderson
1982 France performs nuclear Test
1983 1st non-human primate (baboon) conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio
1983 37 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners (Black July).
1983 Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion
1984 Salyut 7 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
1985 Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS
1985 Steve Cram runs world record mile (3:46.32)
1985 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1985 Uganda suspends constitution following coup
1986 Sikhs extremist kill 16 hindus in Muhktsar India
1987 Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman's Championship Belt
1987 USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite
1988 Mindy Duncan, 16, of Oregon, crowned 6th Miss Teen USA
1988 Pedro Delgado wins Tour de France
1989 Brandi Sherwood, of Idaho, crowned 7th Miss Teen USA
1990 "Les Miserables," opens at Princess Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver
1990 KC Royal George Brett hits for the cycle
1990 Nadezhda Ryashkina of USSR sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23)
1990 Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at Cincinnati Reds-San Diego Padres game
1990 US Ambassador tells Iraq, US won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute
1990 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1991 Howard Stern adds a 4th radio market (KLSX FM-97.1 Los Angeles)
1991 Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long treated for an apparent suicide attempt after he learned he tested positive for steroid use
1991 Seattle Jay Buhner hits a 479' HR in Yankee Stadium
1992 25th Olympic Summer games opens in Barcelona, Spain
1992 Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr Mudd
1993 31st Tennis Fed Cup, Spain beats Australia in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)
1993 48th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Lauri Merten
1993 Designer Claude Montana (44) weds his model Wallis Franken (44)
1993 Israel launches a massive attack against terrorist forces in Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call Seven-Day War.
1993 Miguel Indurain wins his 3rd Tour de France
1993 The St James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
1994 Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ends the 46 year state state of war that has existed between the nations since 1948.
1995 A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
1996 Kim LaPlante of Washington state crowned Mrs United States
1997 Autumn Jackson, found guilty of trying to extort $40M from Bill Cosby
1997 Carroll O'Connor found not guilty of slandering Harry Perzigian
1997 Howard Stern is fired from radio station, KEGL Dallas
1997 K.R. Narayanan is sworn-in as India's 10th president and the first Dalit— formerly called "untouchable"— to hold this office.
1997 QB Brett Favre, re-signs with Green Bay Packers for $50M for 7 yrs
1997 Rocker Rick Danko gets suspended sentence in Japan for drug smuggling
1997 Vincent "The Chin" Gigante found guilty of racketeering in NYC
1999 54th US Women's Open Golf Championship
2000 Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground.
2007 Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first woman president
2012 Italy's credit rating is downgraded to CCC+ by Egan-Jones
2012 Ivica Dačić is sworn in as Prime Minister of Serbia
2012 The 2012 Summer Olympics begin
2012 The double dip recession in the UK economy continues with a fall of 0.7% in GDP in the second quarter of 2012
2012 The UK economy returns to recession with a fall of 0.2% in GDP in the first quarter of 2012 following a fall of 0.3% in the last quarter of 2011
2014 Both Israel and Hamas review US Secretary of State John Kerry's proposal for an immediate ceasefire and meetings in Cairo
2014 Israeli airstrike kills leader of Islamic Jihad's military wing, Salah Abu Hassanein
2014 Palestinian officials call for a "Day of Rage" in the West Bank and within Israel against Israel's operation against Gaza, Israeli Defence Force prepares for protests
2015 UCI BMX Supercross series: Niek Kimmann & Stefany Hernandez win the world title
2016 Verizon announces $4.83 billion purchase of Yahoo
Born on July 25th
975 Thietmar, bishop of Merseburg, German chronicler
1016 Casimir I, Duke of Poland (d. c. 1058)
1109 Afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85) (d. 1185)
1336 Albert, Count of Holland (d. 1404)
1404 Philip I (van Saint-Pol), Duke of Brabant (d. 1430)
1421 Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461)
1517 Jacques Peletier (du Mans), French poet/scientist
1562 Kiyomasa Kato, Japanese warlord (d. 1611)
1575 Christoph Scheiner, Germany, astronomer
1579 Valerius Otto, composer
1626 Geeraerdt Brandt, Dutch theologist/poet/historian
1653 Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat (d. 1728)
1657 Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer
1658 Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (d. 1703)
1683 Pieter Langendijk, Dutch dramatist, painter, and poet (Wiskunstenaars) (d. 1756)
1691 Alessandro Galilei, Italian architect (Cappella Corsini)
1715 Immanuel J Pyra, German poet (Temple of Real Poetry)
1750 Henry Knox, American general (d. 1806)
1761 Charlotte von Kalb, German writer
1772 Gottlob Benedikt Bierey, composer
1775 Anna Symmes Harrison, Ohio, 9th 1st lady (1841)
1778 Heinrich Gebhard, composer
1780 Christian Theodor Weinlig, composer
1786 Giacomo Cordella, composer
1795 James Barry, female disguised as a man, surgeon general (British army)
1797 Princess Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge (d. 1889)
1799 David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d. 1834)
1804 Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Italian minister of Education
1816 Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition)
1822 Schuyler Hamilton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
1824 Richard James Oglesby, Union (Union volunteers), died in 1899
1832 Simon Hassler, composer
1839 Francis Garnier, French explorer (d. 1873)
1840 Flora Adams Darling, founded Daughters of American Revolution
1844 Thomas Eakins, American artist (d. 1916)
1848 Arthur Balfour, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1902-05) (Balfour Declaration) (d. 1930)
1855 Edward Solomon, composer
1860 Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught (d. 1917)
1865 Jac(obus) P Thijsse, Dutch biologist/educator (Contact with Plants)
1866 Frederick Frost Blackman, English botanist
1867 Alexander Rummler, American painter (d. 1959)
1867 Max Dauthendy, German painter and author (Ewige Hochzeit) (d. 1918)
1870 Jan D Domela Nieuwenhuis Nyegaard, Dutch vicar (Young Flanders)
1870 Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966)
1882 George S. Rentz, Navy Chaplain, Navy Cross (d. 1942)
1883 Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (La Giara) (d. 1947)
1884 Davidson Black, Canada, doctor of anatomy (identified Peking Man)
1885 Benito Lynch, Irish/Argentine writer (Caranchos de la Florida)
1886 Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Swedish big-game hunter (d. 1946)
1890 Julian Rivero, SF CA, actor (Son of Oklahoma, Via Pony Express)
1890 Tom O'Brien, San Diego CA, actor (Physical Evidence)
1893 Dorothy Dickson, actress/dancer (Paying the Piper, Danny Boy)
1894 Gavrilo Princip, Serbian assassin (d. 1918)
1894 Walter Brennan, American actor (d. 1974)
1895 Yvonne Printemps, French actress and singer (Le Duel) (d. 1977)
1896 Jack Perrin, American actor (d. 1967)
1896 Richard N Gale, English general/airborne commander (Normandy)
1897 Hermann Ambrosius, composer
1899 Arthur Lubin, film director
1899 Ralph Dumke, Indiana, actor (Movieland Quiz)
1900 Enrique Amorim, Uruguayan author (La victoria no viene sola)
1901 Lila Lee, American actress (d. 1973)
1901 Walter Breedveld/Reinier de Muntel, writer (Een ship vergaat)
1902 Eric Hoffer, American philosopher, author (True Believer) (d. 1983)
1903 Andre Fleury, composer
1905 Denys Watkins-Pitchford, writer and illustrator (d. 1990)
1905 Elias Canetti, Bulgarian novelist (Life-Terms) (Nobel Prize Laureate 1981) (d. 1994)
1905 Lila Lee, Union City NJ, actress (Midnight Girl, Blood & Sand)
1907 Jack Gilford, NYC, actor (Save the Tiger, Cocoon, Arthur 2)
1907 Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist (d. 1970)
1908 Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987)
1908 Jack Gilford, American actor (d. 1990)
1908 Joseph Mitchell, writer
1908 Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian musician (d. 2003)
1913 John Cairncross, linguist (5th Man)
1914 Woody Strode, American actor and decathlete (Posse, Cotton Club, Vigilante, Scream) (d. 1994)
1915 David Napley, solicitor
1916 Ko van Dijk Jr, Dutch actor (Zaak M P)
1916 Lucien Saulnier, Quebec politician (d. 1989)
1917 Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1990)
1918 Jane Frank, American artist (d. 1986)
1918 Nan Grey (Eschal Miller), actress (3 Grief Girl, Dracula's Daughters)
1919 Hubert Booi, Bonairian poet (Golgotha/Muchila)
1920 Jean Carmet, French actor (d. 1994)
1920 Rosalind Franklin, English scientist (d. 1958)
1921 John Christopherson, artist/collector
1921 Lionel Terray, French mountaineer (d. 1965)
1923 Estelle Getty, American actress (d. 2008)
1923 Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (d. 2007)
1924 Estelle Getty, NYC, actress (Sophia Petrillo-Golden Girls), (d. 2008)
1924 Frank Church, American politician (Sen-D-Id, 1957-81) (d. 1984)
1924 Scotch Taylor, South African cricketer (d. 2004)
1925 Jerry Paris, American actor (Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show) (d. 1986)
1926 Teodor Grigoriu, composer
1926 Whitey Lockman, American baseball player
1927 Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (d. 2003)
1927 Midge Decter, American journalist and author (Liberated Woman...)
1927 Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician (d. 2000)
1927 Stanley Dancer, harness racer (4 Hambletonians, 3 Trot Triple Crown)
1928 Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (d. 2005)
1928 Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (d. 1988)
1929 Eddie Mazur, Canadian hockey player (d. 1995)
1929 Somnath Chatterjee, Indian communist leader
1930 Alice Parizeau, Polish-born Quebec writer and essayist (d. 1990)
1930 Annie Ross, British jazz singer
1930 Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto (Ressurection Symphony)
1930 Murray Chapple, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1985)
1931 Cornelis P van Dijk, Dutch minister of the Interior
1932 Gibson N Kente, composer
1932 Paul Joseph Weitz, Erie Pennsylvania, astronaut (Skylab 2, STS 6)
1934 Claude Zidi, French film director and screenwriter
1934 Don Ellis, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1978)
1935 Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi arms dealer
1935 Barbara Harris (Sandra Mankwitz), American actress (Plaza Suite, Family Plot)
1935 John Robinson, American football coach
1935 Larry Sherry, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1935 Lars Werner, Swedish communist leader
1936 Gerry Ashmore, British racing driver
1936 Glenn Murcutt, Australian architect
1937 Colin Renfrew, English archeologist
1939 Richard Akre Trythall, composer
1940 John Pennel, pole vaulter (James E Sullivan Award-1963)
1941 Emmett Till, American murder victim (d. 1955)
1941 Nate Thurmond, American basketball player, NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1941 Peter Suschitzky, Polish-British cinematographer
1941 Raul Ruiz, Puerto Mott Chile, actor (Lexot, Capitolo 66)
1942 Bruce Woodley, Australian musician (The Seekers)
1942 Felix Ph Ingold, writer
1943 Erika Steinbach, German politician
1943 Janet Margolin, NYC, actress (Take the Money & Run, David & Lisa)
1943 Jim McCarty, English musician, drummer (The Yardbirds)
1943 Roy Acuff Jr, rocker
1944 Helga I "Mijanou" van Baarzel, Dutch actress (Klaverweide-Alicia)
1944 Molly Bennett Aiken, founder (riding for the handicapped)
1944 Tom Dawes, rocker
1945 Donna Theodore, Broadway singer (Hollywood Talent Scouts)
1946 John Gibson, American media host
1946 Rita Marley, Jamaican-Cuban singer (I Threes)
1948 Brian M(ichael) Stableford, UK, sci-fi author (Day of Wrath)
1948 Steve Goodman, Chicago, singer/songwriter (Somebody Elses Trouble)
1950 Mark Clarke, rocker (Uriah Heep)
1951 Jack Thompson, American activist and former lawyer
1951 Vanessa (Conny Witteman), Dutch model/singer
1951 Verdine White, American musician, bassist (Earth, Wind & Fire)
1952 "Gorgeous" Jimmy Garvin, [Williams], NWA/WCW/AWA wrestler
1953 Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank
1954 Ken Greer, rock guitarist (Red Rider)
1954 Lynn Frederick, Middlesex England, actress (Schizophrenia)
1954 Walter Payton, American football player, NFL running back (Chicago Bears) (d. 1999)
1955 Bantubonke Holomisa, minister of Defense of Transkei (1988)
1955 Iman (Abdulmajid), Somalian model and actress (Star Trek 6)
1955 Kike Elomaa, Finnish bodybuilder
1955 Randall Bewley, American guitarist
1957 Bogdan Musiol, German DR, bobsled (Olympic-bronze-1980)
1957 Daniel W Bursch, Bristol PA, Lt Cmdr USN/Astronaut (STS 51, 68, 77)
1957 Ray Billingsley, comic strip cartoonist (Curtis)
1957 Roger Clinton, American singer, U.S. President Bill Clinton's half-brother
1957 Steve Podborski, Canadian downhill ski racer
1958 Henk Wanders, Dutch bassist (Frank Boeijen Group)
1958 Thurston Moore, American musician (Sonic Youth)
1959 Anatoly Onoprienko, Ukrainian serial Killer
1960 Alain Robidoux, Canadian snooker player
1961 Bobbie Eakes, American actress
1961 Hugo Teufel III, 2nd Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security
1961 Katherine Kelly Lang, American actress (Brooke-Bold & Beautiful)
1962 Doug Drabek, Victoria TX, pitcher (Houston Astros, NY Yankees)
1962 Mike Buncic, Patterson NJ, discus thrower
1963 Denis Coderre, French Canadian politician
1963 Julian Hodgson, English chess player
1964 Breuk Iversen, American designer and writer
1964 Jose Bautista, Bani Dom Rep, pitcher (SF Giants)
1964 Tony Granato, Downers Grove, NHL left wing (LA Kings)
1965 Illeana Douglas, American actress (Picture Perfect, To Die For, Hacks)
1965 Marty Brown, Owensboro Ky, country singer (Wildest Dreams)
1965 Tom Dvorak, Braunschwieg GER, Canada equestrian dressage (Olympics-96)
1965 Torey Lovullo, Santa Monica CA, infielder (Oakland A's)
1966 Christine C. Quinn, American politician
1966 Elke Jeinsen, Hanover Germany, playmate (May, 1993)
1966 Lynda Lemay, French Canadian singer
1966 Maureen Herman, American bassist
1967 Dave Jareckie, Mexico City Mexico, US biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1967 Ed Sprague, Castro Valley CA, infielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1967 Matt LeBlanc, American actor (Joey Tribbiani-Friends)
1967 Tommy Skjerven, Norwegian football referee
1967 Wendy Raquel Robinson, American actress
1968 Rudi Bryson, Former South African cricketer
1969 Andrea Wieland, Atlanta GA, field hockey goaltender (Olympics-96)
1969 Angela Melini, Saigon, Vietnam, playmate (Jun, 1992)
1969 Jon Barry, American basketball player, NBA guard (LA Lakers, Golden State Warriors)
1969 Kevin Smith, NFL tight end (Oakland Raiders)
1969 Trevor Peres, US, metal guitarist (Obituary-The End Complete)
1970 Nicholas CEJ Windsor, son of English prince Edward, duke of Kent
1971 Billy Wagner, American baseball player, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1971 Pedro Martinez, Manoguayabo Dom Rep, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1971 Roger Creager, American country music singer-songwriter
1971 Stacy Dawn Cenedese, Miss USA-Wyoming (1997)
1971 Tracy Murray, American basketball player, NBA forward (Toronto Raptors, Wash Wizards)
1972 Craig Howard, Redding California, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 Rolex)
1972 Kevin Roberts, cricketer (NSW middle-order batsman since 1994-95)
1973 Dani Filth, British singer (Cradle of Filth)
1973 David Denman, American actor
1973 Kevin Phillips, English footballer
1973 Michael C. Williams, American actor
1973 Mur Lafferty, American podcaster and writer
1974 Jay R. Ferguson, American actor
1974 Kenzo Suzuki, Japanese professional wrestler
1974 Lysa Jackson, Miss South Carolina USA (1996)
1974 Todd Fuller, NBA center (SF Warriors)
1975 Jay R Ferguson Jr, Dallas Tx, actor (Taylor Newton-Evening Shade)
1975 Jean-Claude Darcheville, French footballer
1975 Jody Craddock, English footballer
1976 Javier Vázquez, Puerto Rican baseball player
1976 Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan, Macedonian poet
1976 Tera Patrick, American pornographic actress
1977 Kenny Thomas, American basketball player
1978 Caroline Nicole Brigman, Miss South Carolina Teen USA (1997)
1978 Gerard Warren, American football player
1978 Louise Joy Brown, Oldham, England, first test tube baby (d. 2012)
1979 Allister Carter, English professional snooker player
1979 Amy Adams, American singer
1980 Diam's, French rapper
1980 Shawn Riggans, American baseball player
1980 Toni Vilander, Finnish racing driver
1981 Conor Casey, American soccer player
1981 Jani Rita, Finnish ice hockey player
1982 Brad Renfro, American actor (d. 2008)
1982 Monde Zondeki, South African cricketer
1983 Nenad Krstic, Serbian basketball player
1984 Loukas Mavrokefalidis, Greek basketball player
1985 James Lafferty, American actor
1985 Jasmine Lennard, English model
1985 Nelson Piquet Jr., Brazilian race car driver
1987 Michael Welch, American actor
1988 Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer
1988 Heather Marks, Canadian model
1988 Sarah Geronimo ,Filipina actress and singer
1989 Noel Callahan, Canadian actor
Died on July 25th
306 Gaius Flavius V Constantius, Roman Emperor (297-306) (b. 250)
1409 King Martin I of Sicily
1471 John Soreth, French general
1471 Thomas à Kempis, German priest and mystic (b. 1380)
1492 Innocent VII (Giovanni B Cibo), Italian Pope (1484-92) (b. 1432)
1539 Lorenzo Campeggi(east), archbishop of Bologna/diplomat
1564 Ferdinand I, German Emperor (1558-64)
1570 Ivan Viskovati, chancellor of Russia, executed
1580 Baltazar Alvarez, Spanish jesuit/writer
1593 Steven Haghen, navigator/governor of Ambon (1617-18)
1616 Andreas Libavius, German physician and chemist (b. 1550)
1624 Steven van der Haghen, admiral/gov on Ambon 1617-8
1643 Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English statesman (b. 1584)
1675 Nicolas Saboly, composer
1676 François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (b. 1604)
1681 Urian Oakes, English-born President of Harvard University (b. 1631)
1721 Geleyn Evertsen, lt-admiral of Zealand
1739 Johannes van der Hagen, vicar/genealogy/chronologist
1759 Johann C Altnikol, German organist/klavecinist/composer
1759 Theodoor Verhaegen, Flemish sculptor
1790 Johann Bernhard Basedow, German education reformer (b. 1723)
1790 William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1723)
1791 Isaac Low, American Continental Congressman (b. 1735)
1794 Andrea-Marie Chenier, French poet (Avis aux Francais sur leurs) (b. 1762)
1804 William Forsyth, English gardening expert (Forsythia)
1814 Charles Dibdin, composer
1826 Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (b. 1795)
1826 Pavel I Pestel, Russian officer, hanged
1834 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (b. 1772)
1842 Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (b. 1766)
1843 Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (b. 1766)
1853 Joaquin Murieta, Chilian-American military man, outlaw, murdered
1857 Joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova, composer
1861 Jonas Furrer, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1805)
1864 Clement Hoffman Stevens, Us banker/inventor/Confederate brigadier general
1865 "James Barry", military surgeon, first female Briton to become a qualified medical doctor
1866 Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist
1866 Floride Calhoun, Second Lady of the United States (b. 1792)
1887 John Taylor, American religious leader (b. 1808)
1911 Filippo Capocci, composer
1912 Lawrence Alma Tadema, Dutch/British painter
1918 Carlos Guido y Spano, Argentine poet (Mexico, canto epico)
1918 Franiska zu Reventlow, writer
1922 Jarolslaw Zielinski, composer
1927 Matilde Serao (Tuffolina), Italian writer (Land of Cockayne)
1932 Cyriel Buysse, Flemish baron/writer (It Bolleken)
1934 Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor of Austria (assassinated by nazis) (b. 1892)
1934 François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (b. 1874)
1934 Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (b. 1889)
1944 Lesley J McNair, US lt-general, killed by US bomb at St-Lo
1946 Narziss Oh, German psychology
1952 Herbert Murrill, English composer (b. 1909)
1955 Ilmari Hannikainen, composer
1955 Isaak Iosifovich Dunayevsky, composer
1958 "Sensational" Sherri Martel, woman's wrestling champ (WWF)
1958 Harry Warner, US movie pionier (Warner Bros)
1959 Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish-born Chief Rabbi of Ireland and of Israel (1936-59) (b. 1888)
1962 Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian jurist and Chief Justice (b. 1879)
1963 Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (b. 1877)
1966 Frank O'Hara, writer
1966 Montgomery Clift, movie actor (From Here to Eternity)
1967 Konstantinos Parthenis, Greek painter (b. 1878)
1967 W Gombrowicz, writer
1969 Douglas Stuart Moore, composer
1971 Leroy Robertson, American composer (b. 1896)
1973 Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882)
1974 Walter Brennan, actor (Real McCoys)
1980 Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (b. 1938)
1981 Ian Martin, actor (Uncle Bill-O'Neills)
1982 Beene Dubbelboer, writer (Turfgasgenerator)
1982 Hal Foster, Canadian-American cartoonist (Prince Valiant) (b. 1892)
1983 Jerome Moross, US composer (Frankie & Johnny)
1984 Big Mama Thornton, American singer (b. 1926)
1984 Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1913)
1986 Theodore H "Ted" Lyons, pitcher (Chic White Sox)
1986 Vincente Minnelli, American film director (Gigi, Goodbye Charlie) (b. 1903)
1987 Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary of Commerce, dies of internal injuries
1988 Judith Barsi, American actress (b. 1978)
1989 Steve Rubell, American night club owner (b. 1943)
1991 Brian Haines, actor (Adv of Robin Hood, It)
1991 Kaganovitch, Russian minister of Transport for Stalin
1991 Toni Gerry, actress (Bullet for Joey, Lust for Life)
1992 Alfred Drake, American actor and singer (Oklahoma) (b. 1914)
1992 Hope Miller, actress (Bwana Devil)
1993 Nan Grey, actress (Invisible Man Returns)
1994 John M Dengler, jazz Bass Sax/Trumpet/Trombone
1995 Charlie Rich, American country singer (Lonely Weekends) (b. 1932)
1995 Janice Elliott, novelist
1995 Osvaldo Pugliese, musician/composer
1996 Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (b. 1914)
1996 Raymond O'Malley, teacher
1997 Ben Hogan, American golfer (Masters, Brit Open, US Open-1953) (b. 1912)
1997 Dora Maar, Picasso model/companion
1997 Margaret Farrer, midwife
1998 Evangelos Papastratos, Greek businessman (b. 1910)
1998 Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (b. 1921)
2002 Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher (b. 1917)
2003 Erik Brann, American musician (Iron Butterfly) (b. 1950)
2003 John Schlesinger, British film director (b. 1926)
2003 Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (b. 1912)
2005 Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz trombonist (b. 1928)
2006 Carl Brashear, first African-American U.S Navy Master Diver (b. 1931)
2006 Ezra Fleischer, Romanian dissident, later Israeli writer (b. 1928)
2007 Bernd Jakubowski, German goalkeeper (b. 1952)
2007 Jesse Marunde, American strongman competitor (b. 1979)
2008 Jeff Fehring, Australian rules footballer (b. 1955)
2008 Randy Pausch, American professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, known for his "Last Lecture" (b. 1960)
2008 Tracy Hall, American inventor (b. 1919)
2009 Alexis Cohen, American Idol contestant (unsuccessful), viral phenomenon (b. 1984)
2009 Harry Patch, British supercentenarian and World War I veteran, the last surviving soldier to have served in the Trenches in World War I, dies aged 111 (b. 1898)
2009 Vernon Forrest, Professional boxer, 2-division world champion (b. 1971)
2009 Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter (b. 1958)
2010 Redford White, Filipino comedian (b. 1955)
2011 Mihalis Kakogiannis, Cypriot filmmaker (b. 1922)
2013 Bernadette Lafont, French actress
2014 Salah Abu Hassanein, leader of Islamic Jihad's military wing, dies in Israeli airstrike
2014 Bel Kaufman, American actor